It's funny that they include google as a fast example. On my Nexus4 and Nexus7 Google search is the slowest thing you can do on the internet. Youtube HD videos are way faster than a google search and fail less often when on the train/bus. I always wonder how sending a String and getting back a list of Strings can be so much more expensive than a HD video but who am I to judge, right?
I think he's having in mind the time when you had to enter altavista-digital.com to enter a search site.
There were worlds between that and google.com (both entering the URL and getting the results).
